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  Funny Games 2007

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Feb 2025

  Funny Games is entirely suffering. The only payoff here is for your own expectations to be subverted or for your own enjoyment of dissecting what the film means or wants to say. It is terribly bleak, easily one of the darkest things I've seen, but works in its favor and still manages to, perhaps even against it's own theme statement, provide ample entertainment and excitement. I don't think it's doing the film justice though to simply perceive it as a…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Jan 2025

  Was not expecting to be so enthralled but I really became smitten the longer it went on. Such intense emotions throughout, incredible sadness, consuming warmth, and an utterly impeccable score go a very long way to make this story of a struggling immigrant be extremely investing all the way through. The runtime works entirely to the film's benefit; each scene is given plenty of time to breathe, and the more time spent getting to know everyone makes you more invested…

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  Monster Hunter 2020

  ½ Watched 11 Jan 2023

  This is genuinely, without hyperbole, one of the worst films I have ever sat through in my life. I was ready for a massive piece of shit with maybe some cute nods to the games, but the unreal levels of poor filmmaking hasn't left my mind since I saw it. I rarely see turds this stinky and unsightly, even, after going to chipotle, but my God, if this isn't the stinkiest, most unsightly piece of fecal fuck film I have…

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  The Wrong Trousers 1993

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Nov 2023

  Probably among the films I've seen the most as a child, and only gets better as I age. The zany thrills and warm emotional core of all the Wallace and Gromit stories is here in spades, and in terms of unique stop-motion set pieces, absolutely shreds every other entry in the series in terms of the balance of bombastic spectacle and dry comedy. Feathers McGraw nails every comedic beat while only conveying his scheming nature through his behavior and straightforward…

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